"Sometimes a franchise just has a big, black mark over it and no amount of wishful thinking can turn the tide..."-Jaap Still

"Brilliant use of an instructional picture book."-Kyle in Newport News

"Does Met$tra have a gambling problem?"-Erik Love

"Hasta la vista baby. I throw up the white flag."-Joe

"I'm still a fan, but enough is enough."-Meet the Mets

"I watch the grass grow - it's more exciting."-David

"Freaking Chipper Jones. I HATE Freaking Chipper Jones."-Dave Murray

"Good God man, what have you done??!! You've released the genie from the bottle. I see the showers and toilets backing up at Shea, emergency landings at LGA, unusual tides in Flushing Bay, and when they break ground for the new stadium the construction gang will unearth and disturb some ancient Indian burial ground for unlucky and cursed members of the Iroquois nation...Blaspheme no more Metstradamus! You are tempting the fates!"-The Metmaster

Great, the manager has been reading the Art Howe "Book of Folksy Quotes." I give up.

Are you like me...waiting for the headline on Yahoo! Sports that says "Wagner Sets Crotch on Fire After Loss?"

(And for those who question Randolph asking Country Time to get six outs, I ask you this: Would you have trusted Aaron Heilman to face Chase Utley, Pat Burrell, and Ryan Howard?)

Just remember: they're not saying "boo", they're saying...oh I can't even finish that with a straight face. They're saying "boo".

Along with other expletives.

We're still in first place, right? Sure feels that way, don't it?

But it's the same thing every year. Mets lose "one of those games", and I get phone calls from Yankee fans all over the country asking if I'm OK, like they really f***ing care. They probably want to see me dead anyway. Whether it's Yadier Molina, or Braden Looper, or Luis Sojo doing the damage, the phone calls always come; "oh, another tough one, huh?" or, "just calling to say we suck", or "if you're in Philadelphia watching this game I'm going to shoot you".

It's the same f***ing phone calls every season. I mean, I actually wondered today what deal was made with the devil for 1969? And did the devil give a cut rate deal for my soul in exchange for '86? And then I left the house...and I saw a guy wearing a big placard hawking psychic readings by "Teresa", who apparently will show me the way to fix all of my problems. And the guy wearing the sign was also wearing a Yankee hat.

The only thing I'm asking the psychic is this: How are the Mets going to lose tomorrow?

Because it can't get any worse, can it?

Oh wait, the Mets are going to Atlanta. Damn. Time to visit the psychic.

12 comments:

I was at this one. I don't know what was worse, dealing with obnoxious phillies fans, or watching the conclusion in "cartoon mode" on the mets web site, because the Comcast corporation blacks out all Phillies games that appear on satellite TV. (Because I live in PA, they think I should be required to get cable and switch teams. I say screw them.

I think you and I need a break from the mets. I'm going to need therapy if this continues. GO MARLINS. (until Monday that is)

Willie really showed some desperation by putting Wagner in with a self-proclaimed dead arm for six outs. This with a team that had a three game lead in the division. But the question is who else do you go with?

The four games were really tough losses and it will be interesting to see how the Mets bounce back. I thought for sure last weekend the team was headed toward a double digit lead and the Yankees were about to fall out of their divisional race for the first time since 1997 (coming off of one of the worst road games for them in franchise history). I guess that's why you have to play all the games out.

I wouldn't even try to predict whether the Mets will spin in Atlanta or bounce back. Their record this year has been so skitzo.

In Met history, NOTHING has been done the easy way and this year should be no different. Clinching early and setting things up for the playoffs is a Yankee theme (although not this year).

Listmaker has it exactly right - bring in Wagner to face the tough part of the order, and then bring in Heilman to pitch the 9th. What's more important - protecting Wagner's statistics, or getting the win? If Heilman can't be counted on, then the Mets are in trouble. Let him do his job. Now, they go to Atlanta after being swept by Philly with their closer not available.

On Labor Day be prepared to see the Mets in second place boys and girls. Then we'll see what the team is made of. A team assumes the personality of it's manager or coach, and unfortunately that's what's happened to the Mets. Last year was magic. Anyone could have managed the Mets and won. But this year is a whole different ballgame. Randolph has shown too many times that he's in over his head. For God's sake can he once go nuts on the field and show some emotion? I see more passion every week at the checkout in Shoprite when the scanner reads some schlub's cantalope at 99 cents a pound instead of the manager's special of 89 cents! This team is too damn laid back. Like a clubhouse full of Kevin McReynolds. It's just a matter of time before Randolph starts mumbling "we battled 'em out there". Read Dan Graziano in today's Star-Ledger. He has it right. The Mets are a paper tiger.The construction dudes at Citi Field are going to be pretty lonely this fall.